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Quote by George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. – George Eliot

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Faith
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George Eliot
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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Science
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

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Beauty

Beauty can come in strange forms. – James Dyson

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Beauty

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. – Diane Kruger

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Beauty

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You cant put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if youre doing it from a position of correction. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty

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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Fear

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Letters

The way Hollywood portrays mothers – youre either all good and saint-like, or youre all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. – Ellen Barkin

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movies

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. – Jason Love

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Las Vegas